linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.4 04/35] MIPS: Update defconfigs for NF_CT_PROTO

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Date:   Mon, 20 Mar 2017 11:30:52 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-mips@...ux-mips.org,
        Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.4 04/35] MIPS: Update defconfigs for
 NF_CT_PROTO_DCCP/UDPLITE change

On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 04:05:16PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-03-16 at 23:29 +0900, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > 4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > 
> > ------------------
> > 
> > From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> > 
> > commit 9ddc16ad8e0bc7742fc96d5aaabc5b8698512cd1 upstream.
> > 
> > In linux-4.10-rc, NF_CT_PROTO_UDPLITE and NF_CT_PROTO_DCCP are bool
> > symbols instead of tristate, and kernelci.org reports a bunch of
> > warnings for this, like:
> > 
> > arch/mips/configs/malta_kvm_guest_defconfig:63:warning: symbol value 'm' invalid for NF_CT_PROTO_UDPLITE
> > arch/mips/configs/malta_defconfig:62:warning: symbol value 'm' invalid for NF_CT_PROTO_DCCP
> > arch/mips/configs/malta_defconfig:63:warning: symbol value 'm' invalid for NF_CT_PROTO_UDPLITE
> > arch/mips/configs/ip22_defconfig:70:warning: symbol value 'm' invalid for NF_CT_PROTO_DCCP
> > arch/mips/configs/ip22_defconfig:71:warning: symbol value 'm' invalid for NF_CT_PROTO_UDPLITE
> > 
> > This changes all the MIPS defconfigs with these symbols to have them
> > built-in.
> > 
> > Fixes: 9b91c96c5d1f ("netfilter: conntrack: built-in support for UDPlite")
> > Fixes: c51d39010a1b ("netfilter: conntrack: built-in support for DCCP")
> [...]
> 
> I don't think this was needed for 4.4 or 4.9, as those symbols were
> still tristate type.

I don't know, Arnd was the one that reported it to me.

Arnd?

greg k-h